I've noticed that when I feel the less discombobulated is when I'm just sitting amid the madness of just being alive with my cup of tea. It's a warm cup of sanity. It's really the only sanity I can claim as a 34 year old married woman with 3 kids. I've decided to become an expert on cups of sanity because I'm still steeping myself. I wonder how strong I'll end up...

Monday, January 17, 2011

First things first...

Before anyone is all "I'm so not stupid here.", let me just say that to really enjoy of cup of tea, you have to know how to make one. Apparently, who knew, there is a little bit of an art to it. Here I am thinking: hot water into cup with teabag. Really not hard. True but not true at the same time. I found the chart at the bottom on www.2basnob.com. I was wrong. Now I know. Now you also know.

Good to know.

Tea

Water Temperature

Steep Time

Green Tea

160 degrees F

1 - 3 minutes

White Tea

180 degrees F

4 - 8 minutes

Oolong Tea

190 degrees F

1 - 8 minutes

Black Tea

Rolling Boil

3 - 5 minutes

Herbal (tisanes)

Rolling Boil

5 - 8 minutes

Quote of the Day:

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb

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